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Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 Performance Is Looking Great For Linux 6.0  Phoronix

Being prepared for Ubuntu 22.10 and presumably will be back-ported in future Ubuntu 22.04 LTS point releases is the systemd-hwe package to more easily deal with updated hardware rules as part of new device enablement...

Ubuntu Linux Preparing systemd-hwe To Ease OEM Hardware Enablement  Phoronix

Following yesterday's belated release of Wine 7.15, Wine-Staging 7.15 is now available that continues to carry hundreds of extra testing/experimental patches atop upstream Wine for bug fixes and other features to empower Windows games and applications on Linux...

Week in review: Cisco hacked, Kali Linux 2022.3 released, Black Hat USA 2022  Help Net Security

Record Audio in Linux With Audacity (and Reduce Noise)  It's FOSS

BITBLAZE Titan BM15 Arm Linux laptop features Baikal-M1 processor  CNX Software

Those on rolling-release Linux distributions that are quick to adapt to new toolchain updates are finding Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) enabled games breaking when running on the recently released Glibc 2.36. The breakage stems from the DT_HASH section being dropped in GNU C Library but EAC being among the few software still expecting that section rather than DT_GNU_HASH...

What Is Virtual Memory on Linux? How to Manage It  MUO - MakeUseOf

What Is Virtual Memory on Linux? How to Manage It  MUO - MakeUseOf

Wine 7.15 is out a day late as the newest development snapshot of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine is also what serves as the base for Valve's Proton that powers Steam Play...

Windows compatibility layer Wine version 7.15 out now  GamingOnLinux

Humble Bundle have another interesting set of games in the Tactical Combat Bundle  GamingOnLinux

With the Ryzen 6000 "Rembrandt" mobile processors most exciting about these Zen 3+ SoCs has been the energy efficiency improvements and moving from Vega to RDNA2 graphics as with the Radeon 680M found on the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U that I have been running many Linux benchmarks on over the past several weeks. For those wondering if it pays off moving to a newer Linux kernel or Mesa version with Radeon 680M integrated graphics, here are some reference benchmarks I recently conducted...

AMD Radeon 680M Graphics Benchmarks Across Various Linux Kernel, Mesa Versions  Phoronix

"Together We Can Do So Much": A Beginner's Tribute to Linux Community  hackernoon.com

3 Ways to install Steam on Linux Mint or LMDE  Linux Shout

Yes, You Can Use The Steam Deck As A Computer (Here’s How)  Kotaku

Linux Gets New Patch To Fix AMD Retbleed Mitigation - STIBP Needed With IBPB  Phoronix

Sent out this morning is a Linux kernel "fix" that now enabled STIBP when using the IBPB mode for Retbleed mitigations on AMD processors. In other words, more protections needed for this enhanced mode of Retbleed mitigation...